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Next time get the offer before asking for the raise and present it to your boss. Sucks that it works this way, but they probably would've handed you the promotion if you had an offer. Call it market research!
Or they would have him training his replacement the moment the other offer expired.
That's absolutely not how it works in the majority of corporations where you manager isn't a vindictive piece of shit, it's absolutely expected by management and HR. In this case, OP's manager had their back, they definitely wouldn't have faced retaliation.
I do this every few years and I've only switched companies a handful of them, and only because they wouldn't match the other offer. You can make corporations work for you you know, the "fear the corporation you work for" attitude is dangerous as hell.
Well the time between me asking and me getting a new job was like 9 months. I was actually patient and waited a while before I looked but eventually couldn't wait. So I got the offer and then asked for a counter and they wouldn't do it.
Ah yeah, that's the way to do it. Personally I interview around every few years and present higher offers to my current company, most of the time they counter and I stay, couple times they didn't and I left. Unfortunately it's pretty much the only way to keep your salary above inflation these days, but since I started in the data industry I've 6x my total compensation, so it definitely does work.